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Game Theory
Oxford University Press, UK 2007; US$ 9.99Games are played everywhere: from economics and online auctions to social interactions, and game theory is about how to play such games in a rational way, and how to maximize their outcomes. This VSI reveals, without mathematical equations, the insights the theory can bring to everything from how to play poker optimally to the sex ratio among bees.... more...
Rational Decisions
Princeton University Press 2008; US$ 27.95It is widely held that Bayesian decision theory is the final word on how a rational person should make decisions. However, Leonard Savage--the inventor of Bayesian decision theory--argued that it would be ridiculous to use his theory outside the kind of small world in which it is always possible to "look before you leap." If taken seriously, this... more...
Natural Justice
Oxford University Press, USA 2005; US$ 18.99This book lays out foundations for a "science of morals." Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. In contrast to the previous writing in moral... more...
Playing for Real, Coursepack Edition
Oxford University Press, USA 2012; US$ 45.00Playing for Real is a problem-based textbook on game theory that has been widely used at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. This Coursepack Edition will be particularly useful for teachers new to the subject. It contains only the material necessary for a course of ten, two-hour lectures plus problem classes and comes with a disk of teaching... more...
Evolution and Rationality
Cambridge University Press 2012; US$ 79.00This volume explores from several viewpoints the relationship between Darwinian evolution and the theory of rational choice. more...
The Structure of Values and Norms
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 60.00Hansson has developed a unified formal representation of values and norms that reflects both their static and their dynamic properties. This formalized treatment, carried out in terms of both informal value theory and precise logical detail, will contribute to the clarification of certain issues in the basic philosophical theory of values and norms. more...
Decision Space
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 51.00In Decision Space: Multidimensional Utility Analysis, Paul Weirich increases the power and versatility of utility analysis and in the process advances decision theory. Combining traditional and novel methods of option evaluation into one systematic method, multidimensional utility analysis is a valuable new tool in decision theory. more...
Interpreting Probability
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 48.00This book investigates how Bayesianism as one theory of probability was discredited during the 1920s and 1930s by two British scientists and shows how the choice of a certain interpretation of probability depends on the experiences of the individuals involved. more...
Symmetry and its Discontents
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00This volume brings together a collection of essays on the history and philosophy of probability and statistics by one of the eminent scholars in these subjects. The essays weave together the history and philosophy of these subjects and document the fascination that they have exercised for more than three centuries. more...
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